GARDENING

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Do the following:

Grow six vegetables, three from seeds and three from seedlings,
through harvesting.

Grow six flowers, three from seeds and three from seedlings,
through flowering.

Give the food value of the following:

Three root or tuber crops.

Three fruits or vegetables whichthat bear above the ground.

Three fruitsleafy greens.

Test 100 garden seeds for germination. Determine the percentage
of seeds that germinate. Explain why you think some did not germinate.

Visit your county extension agent’s office, local university
agricultural college, nursery, or a botanical garden or arboretum. Report
on what you learned.

3.Tell what you did to control insects or
diseases. Tell where and how to use a contact insecticide, a stomach
poison, and a fungicide.
Identify five garden pests (insects, diseased plants). Recommend two
solutions for each pest. At least one of the two solutions must be an
organic method.

4. Do
ONE THREE
of the following:

Test 100 garden seeds for
germination.
Build a compost bin and maintain it for 90 days.

Make a hotbed or cold frame,
and grow plants in same.
Build a vermipost bin (worm compost bin) and maintain it for 90
days.

Clean, bunch, or pack any
three vegetables for market.
Build a hydroponic garden containing three vegetables or herbs,
or three ornamental plants. Maintain this garden through harvest
or flowering, or for 90 days.

Enter one of the vegetables
or flowers you have grown in a show, fair, or festival.Build one water garden, either in a container
(at least 12 by 6 inches and 6 inches deep), or in the ground as
a small, decorative pond no larger than 6 by 3 feet and 24 inches
deep. Maintain the water garden for 90 days.

Make a storage bin or pit
for home use. Store part of a crop you have grown. Describe the
process.

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